[USN-2185-1] Firefox vulnerabilities
Benjamin Kaduk
kaduk at MIT.EDU
Sat May 3 00:00:43 UTC 2014
Hi Chris,
I can't seem to find any substantial amount of complaining (or really, any
traffic at all) about this on the forums, bug tracker, or mailing lists,
which is very confusing to me, but this firefox update appears to have
broken printing PDFs from the in-browser pdf.js viewer. Most of our
systems here are running the 12.04 LTS (precise), but I think I could
reproduce the failure on 14.04 (trusty) as well. Even a simple "print to
file" is sufficient to display the failure; the output is entirely blank.
(We see a lot of blank pages in the output trays of the printers in our
computer labs.)
I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1315020 for
tracking in Ubuntu, but the real action appears to be on the mozilla bug,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003707 .
Has anyone seen reports like this?
I tried to locally build a patched firefox with the change for mozilla bug
991767 backed out, but the build fails, so I don't have any experimental
data to add about whether that will help.
The build fails at:
/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/dist/bin/xpcshell
-g /home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/dist/bin/ -a
/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/dist/bin/ -f
/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/./toolkit/mozapps/installer/precompile_cache.js
-e precompile_startupcache("resource://gre/");
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/./toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py",
line 375, in <module>
main()
File
"/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/./toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py",
line 367, in main
args.source, gre_path, base)
File
"/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/./toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py",
line 148, in precompile_cache
errors.fatal('Error while running startup cache precompilation')
File
"/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py",
line 101, in fatal
self._handle(self.FATAL, msg)
File
"/home/builder/firefox-29.0+build1/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py",
line 96, in _handle
raise ErrorMessage(msg)
mozpack.errors.ErrorMessage: Error: Error while running startup cache
precompilation
Thanks,
Ben Kaduk
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